Bring Fruit Trees to Native American Reservations

Aloha Trees for Tribes supporters,

Currently the FTPF team and volunteers are hard at work at our Hawaii headquarters on the Big Island, where we are building new nurseries on the land in order to supply our future projects across the Hawaiian Islands.

When we aren't outside builiding these nurseries, we are doubling our efforts back on the mainland to do a tour of the western part of the country next year specifically focused on the Trees for Tribes projects. We have some interest and potential backers for a 2016/2017 tour ranging from Arizona to Minnesota to the Dakotas, and are very excited about the potential! In the meantime, we can use all the support we can get from our amazing donors, so please consider making a donation today. Every dollar helps us bring fruit trees and education to isolated tribal communities who are far too often struggling with food insecurity, childhood malnutrition, diet-related illnesses, and a heavy reliance on packaged, processed, and nutriet-deficinet convience store foods.

Thank you for all that you do for the tribes! Mahalo nui loa (thank you very much) from Hawaii,

The Entire FTPF Team

Dear Friend,

Summer is here, and so is our next Trees for Tribes project! This June we are very excited to be returning to Minnesota to plant for the second year in a row with the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians of northern Minnesota. Last year we worked closely with our partners in the state as well as with tribal leaders to populate a local community center with fruiting trees and to provide education in their care. This year, we will be returning with another orchard in tow in order to continue and expand upon our progress in 2015. 

FTPF will be planitng apples, pears, and cherries choosen specifically for the cold winters of the uppermost part of the country, and will also be selecting varities known to be disease and rot resistant, easy to manage, and most importantly, tasty!

We are also working on some other projects across the country, including several new projects in the Southwest, where we hope to make new connections with tribes whom we have not worked with previously. If you or anyone you know has an idea for a project with a native community in the United States, please feel free to reach out to us directly for infomraiton on apply for the Trees for Tribes orchard grant program!

Thank you so much for your continued support! Keep an eye out for updates from the field this month by following us on Facebook or Instagram.

Gratefully,